An Ursuline convent once stood in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. Now a plaque marks the spot. The convent was located at Dauphine and Sister streets in the Ninth Ward. BY RACHEL MIPRO Contributing ...

The Ursuline convent was targeted because of conspiracy theories that, in many ways, were the 1830s version of the contemporary panic on the right regarding child sexual abuse: Pizzagate—the ...

The Old Ursuline Convent continued as a residence for priests, including those serving nearby St. Mary’s Church. A new residence for the city’s archbishops was completed in 1925.

In 1834, a frenzied mob attacked and burned to the ground a convent of Ursuline nuns outside Boston. The act was the culmination of years of anti-Catholic preaching and aggression toward the ...